Koizumi Junsaku

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Koizumi Junsaku, (小泉淳作, 1924-) is a noted Japanese painter and pottery artist.

Koizumi was born in Kamakura, Kanagawa in 1924, and in 1952 graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. He has held a number of gallery shows in Japan, and has painted remarkable images on the ceilings of the Kennin-ji temple in Kyoto (2002), and Kencho-ji temple in Kamakura (2003). He is a member of no particular school, and his ink paintings (suibokuga) of Japan's mountains have received critical acclaim.